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Long Live the Explorer

The last two centuries, in particular, witnessed the final great explorations of the surface of the planet by scientists, geographers, and surveyors. In those pre-photography days, and for a while after, artists were an integral part of any expedition...

Published 19 Mar 2013 12:46 AM by johnandann@theartistsroad

Filed under: Plein Air, oil painting, How to Paint, Art
Power to the Pencil

With so much interest in plein air painting these days, it's easy to overlook how important drawing skills can be to the landscape painting artist. Fundamentally, drawing is both a way of seeing and a way of knowing a subject. If you can draw it,...

Published 24 Jan 2013 12:10 AM by johnandann@theartistsroad

Filed under: Plein Air, Landscape Painting, How to Paint, drawing, Drawing Basics, How to Draw, Art
Dark Shadows

Why go to the trouble of painting from life when our cameras can take such great pictures? Digital cameras have gotten so good at taking properly exposed, beautiful photos that they can fool us into thinking that they are also accurate. To be sure, the...

Published 22 Jan 2013 12:30 AM by johnandann@theartistsroad

Filed under: Plein Air, oil painting, Landscape Painting, How to Paint, Art
Into the Arctic: The Plan

Zooming in and out of the Canadian North like a hummingbird on a flower, my mouse was beginning to heat up. An armchair explorer’s best friend, Google Earth was helping me understand the massive scale of the Arctic ( here's my video all about...

Published 20 Nov 2012 12:39 AM by Cory Trepanier

Filed under: Plein Air, How to Paint, Landscape Drawing, Art
See the Forest NOT the Trees

"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky." - Khalil Gibran Perhaps the biggest challenge for those of us who paint from life is to see and understand what is right before our eyes. This may sound simple, but it is anything but, and...

Published 8 Nov 2012 12:48 PM by johnandann@theartistsroad

Filed under: Plein Air, Landscape Painting, Art
Don't Forget to Look Behind You

When walking through a landscape looking for that magical spot that compels you to stop to sketch or put up your plein air easel, don't forget to look behind you (and not for muggers, but the view!). Stop regularly, turn around and consider the view...

Published 27 Sep 2012 12:32 AM by Marion Boddy-Evans

Filed under: Plein Air, How to Paint, Landscape Drawing, Art
Painting the Arctic: Turning a Dream Into Reality

Most artists tend to be dreamers, myself included. In 2006, with just my passion for painting the wilderness, I began to let my mind wander in and around the idea of painting places I'd only dreamed about--incredibly wild and remote landscapes. Places...

Published 24 Sep 2012 12:26 PM by Cory Trepanier

Filed under: Plein Air, How to Paint, Art
Sketching Isn’t Painting

Sketching is information gathering and painting is translating the information. That's where I've ended up after pondering one particular comment made in response to my Wimping Out of Plein Air Painting post: "even if you are doing a plein...

Published 13 Sep 2012 12:13 AM by Marion Boddy-Evans

Filed under: Plein Air, How to Paint, sketching, Art
Plein Air Essence

We enjoyed the recent plein air blog of artist Marion Boddy-Evans and agree with her sentiments. We have been outdoor painting for over forty years each (before the "plein air" phrase became ubiquitous) and have always felt that the value in...

Published 14 Aug 2012 12:01 PM by johnandann@theartistsroad

Filed under: Plein Air, painting, How to Paint, Landscape Drawing, Art
The Lost Art

Losing a painting somewhere is never fun, but losing a good painting can drive one to temporary distraction. While teaching our plein air painting workshop in Rocky Mountain National Park last September, I was demonstrating the direct-painting method...

Published 17 Apr 2012 1:25 PM by johnandann@theartistsroad

Filed under: Plein Air, How to Paint, Art
Putting the Air in Plein Air

I don't care how many times I see Monet's paintings, they never cease to inspire me. I just had the great pleasure of seeing the new Monet show at the Cincinnati Art Museum with my art buddies, and especially for those of us plein-air artists...

Published 5 Mar 2012 10:09 PM by Jennifer King

Filed under: Plein Air, oil painting, How to Paint, Art
Beating the Winter Blues

Call it the blues, call it the doldrums, call it what you will--it seems that many of us plein-air painters go through a slump about this time of year. Even if the weather is good enough for painting outdoors, nature isn't always at her finest when...

Published 22 Feb 2012 10:14 PM by Jennifer King

Filed under: Plein Air, How to Paint, Landscape Drawing, Art, Artist Daily
Playing Studio Detective with a Monet Painting

If there were any artist, past or present, into whose studio I could magically transport myself and observe him paint, it would be Claude Monet. I have always been intrigued by his painting style, especially his highly textured and complex surfaces. When...

Published 8 Feb 2012 10:30 PM by Mitchell Albala

Filed under: Plein Air, painting, Landscape Painting, How to Paint, Drawing Basics, Art
The Cosmic Dance en Plein Air

Spring in the Hills II by John Hulsey, 5 x 7, oil painting. Whenever we get to feeling that there is nothing really new to be discovered in art or the world, we have to keep in mind that the "undiscovered country" often lies in our own backyards...

Published 25 Jan 2012 10:58 PM by johnandann@theartistsroad

Filed under: Plein Air, oil painting, How to Paint, Pastel, Art, fantasy art
Don't Let Your Plein-Air Skills Grow Cold

Don't give up your plein air focus over the winter months. Try to paint from life indoors and keep sketching. ( Melting Snow by Ben Fenske, 60 x 75, oil on canvas.) For some of us, winter weather is just a bit too unpredictable and chilly to spend...

Published 9 Jan 2012 10:37 PM by Jennifer King

Filed under: Plein Air, oil painting, Landscape Painting, How to Paint, sketching, Still Life, Portrait Painting, Drawing Basics, Art

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